If you find yourself staring at a problem on a screen—of any size—without taking any action for more than five minutes or so, pen and paper might be your ticket out.
I like this.
Category: General Tech
GoDaddy Withdraws SOPA Support
Speaking of SOPA...
Everyone’s favorite domain registrar has gone insane.
What is SOPA?
Everyone’s favorite lawyer-turned-tech-blogger Nilay Patel has posted an in-depth look at SOPA. You need to read this.
Dropbox vs. iCloud
But Dropbox’s success is now at a critical moment. Providing a way to give users access to everything they do on a computer from everywhere has become the brass ring for digital services. And Dropbox is the one to beat. After years of remaining largely below the radar of the world’s biggest computing companies, Dropbox is now faced with a host of very prominent competitors. The most immediate, of course, is Apple, whose iCloud service launched in October.
Steve Jobs’ Minimalist Workspace
via Minimalism and Real Work
On this week’s Back to Work, Dan and Merlin talked about minimalism, and how it can become a distraction in and of itself.
They discuss the point that if someone can’t work unless every single cord and pixel are in just the right place, maybe they should be more interested in the work at hand.
I think this is dead on. I like having a minimal computing experience as much as the next Mac nerd, but I do feel the temptation to keep tweaking and keep shedding tools. Sometimes, that temptation feels bigger than a looming deadline.
Index Cards Made First Internet-Like Database
Don’t tell Merlin and the 3x5 lovers, or they won’t ever stop talking about this.
Speaking of Messy Pants...
It is amazing how many people yell “Oh, shit!” as something terrible happens in front of them. Wow.
The Dark Knight Rises
Dr. Drang, on Type2Phone
Dr. Drang, on the little app that allows users to type on their iOS devices via the Mac:
What isn’t wonderful, at least not initially, is what goes on in the Type2Phone window as you type. Every keystroke shows up in a little white chiclet which scrolls from right to left as you type. It’s really distracting.
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So what you see on your Mac is not what appears on your iPhone; it’s more like the output of a keylogger program. Weird.
Paul Thurrott: RIP, RIM
RIM stands as a warning for any tech industry Goliath that once owned a market only to watch it get snatched away by smaller, faster moving rivals with better products and better strategies. This is a fate that could befall any company–Microsoft, Apple, Google, whatever. Though I have a hard time imagining any of them being as poorly run as is RIM.
RIM is dead. I’m glad I never wasted time covering this junk.